People

I am a graduate of the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and a scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. Before the birth of my firstborn son, I participated in group and individual exhibitions, including “Best Diplomas of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk” (2017), “Mothers of Independence” (2020), and “Artistic Universe” (2020). I was also a finalist in the “7th Review of Young Art Fresh Blood” organised by the Socato Art Gallery in Wrocław (2018). I am the initiator of the collective Artist Mothers and the author of its visual identity. Since 2017, I have been running Oki Oki Studio alongside Ola Olszewska, where we complete graphic design projects for cultural institutions and cultural events together. We are active members of the Association of Applied Graphic Designers (STGU). We are authors of, among others, the visual identity of the celebrations of the 18th anniversary of the Museum of Modern Art (MSN) and the “Warsaw under construction. How to make a school?” (2021) project developed for the same museum. We were nominated in the Most Beautiful Book of the Year competition of the Polish Society of Book Publishers (2018 and 2021). We authored this year’s visual identity of the National Grant Programme Artistic Journey of Hestia (2024/2025).

I am the Network Manager at the European Dance Development Network, an organization dedicated to supporting, developing, and advocating for sustainability within the contemporary dance sector.

My natural professional skill is to work at the crossroads of cultures and languages.

I work in the field of organizational, team and personal development. My guiding principle is to increase care for each other and ourselves, connecting to my belief in living life free from pressure. I work with organizations to define their vision, the desired impact and create a working climate based on shared values, in which all employees have opportunities for development and enjoy working together.

I am a researcher and a person curious of multicultural processes taking place in the near and far world. I have been living in Warsaw for more than seven years, where I moved from Minsk in Belarus, as I call my birthplace.

In collaboration with the WOK, I am conducting a research project “Language as a key to active cultural participation. A municipal programme for the inclusion of people with refugee and migrant experience (needs, conclusions, proposals)”. I combine language tuition with cultural education.

I am a PhD student researching safe cultural spaces for queer individuals with migration and/or refugee experiences in collaboration with the WOK. I am currently researching queer performances existing in the Polish club scene, focusing on ballroom and drag culture.

I am a psychologist and a PhD student at UW. In collaboration with WOK, I am conducting a research project on strategies to improve the psychological well-being of Warsaw residents through the creation of place attachment and the use of pro-social places.

I am a theatre director, and I also direct radio plays. I graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Warsaw and from the Faculty of Drama Direction at the National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw.

I am a theatre pedagogue and director of TR Warsaw theatre.

I am a curator and art historian. I have been the Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw since 2007.

The subject of my PhD dissertation is care work and I study the work experience of caregivers of older people. During the analysis I realised that the scientific knowledge production did not allow me to work with the emotional dimension of the collected material and with my own emotions.

During the residency, I want to reflect on a new format for my writing. I want to visit places that are important to this story. The trips would allow me to go beyond the context in which I function daily (as a parent/husband/researcher) and look at this history and myself differently (as a Pole-Ukrainian/Ukrainian-Polish).

As I am involved in the MOST Co-operative Farm, I want to rethink my function/mission and implement it consistently.

Research and aid work on the humanitarian crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border led me to seek additional means of expression, and I took up painting. During the residency I would like to explore this and try to identify and understand what I need.

As part of my residency at WOK, I would like to research the intersection of disability, art and accessibility in the Polish context.

As part of the residency, we want to use the work on Anouk Herman’s poetry collection as an opportunity to develop a sustainable and viable operation strategy at a time when the scope of our endeavours continues to grow.

I am a yoga teacher, DJ, zinester, promoter and activist. I am one of the co-founder of Girls and Queers to the Front (@girlsandqueerstothefront), an initiative that has been operating in Warsaw since 2015 and focuses on creating a supportive space for girls and queer people through publishing zines, poetry books and short prose forms, organising concerts, workshops, exhibitions, performances and book readings. I hold an MSc in Data Analytics – Big Data. Although science will always be close to my heart, thanks in part to GQTTF, I have learnt to keep trying new things with more confidence. I found my true passion in teaching yoga, exploring various forms of conscious movement and training in Contemporary Thai Massage. In yoga, I continue my desire to create safer spaces and operate in a queer community, which is why I created the Queer Yoga (@queeryoga.co.uk) series of classes and workshops in 2021.

I am a researcher, PhD in Cultural Studies, zinester, editor and activist. I teach at the Center for American Studies at the University of Warsaw and am a member of the Gender/Sexuality Lab. I co-founded the Girls and Queers to the Front (@girlsandqueerstothefront) initiative, operating in Warsaw since 2015 and focusing on creating a nurturing space for girls and queer people by publishing zines, poetry books and short prose forms, organising concerts, workshops, exhibitions, performances and book readings. Together with Katarzyna Szenajch, I co-created the 100lesb.com project and exhibition. I am the recipient of a Fulbright grant, a National Science Centre grant and an art grant from the City of Warsaw. My interests include queer theory, autobiographical narratives, girl as an identity category, DIY (Do It Yourself, do it yourself) practices and the notion of failure in theory and practice. I write short stories and play bass in a band called NANA.

I am a poet, editor and author of the poetry collection Przejścia (Old Town Cultural Centre, 2020) and the novel Strużki (Cyranka, 2023). I have been published in Dwutygodnik, Mały Format, Wizje and Pismo magazines, among others. I am a co-founder of the Girls and Queers to the Front initiative and I live in Warsaw.

I applied for the residency out of a need to look at myself from a distance. I dream of working towards change. My daily childcare responsibilities bring a routine, a pyramid of obligations built on a sense of responsibility for the health and safety of my little ones. I wonder how this can be balanced – being there for my children, but also for myself.

I want to use the residency as an opportunity to rest after almost a year of precarious work on a show, and also I want to work on my professional development plan for future work in Poland and my studies, which I would like to continue.

As part of the WOK residency, we are undertaking process-oriented activities, aiming to use time and space to reflect on the future of the collective, its actions, values and structure.

I am a graduate of the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. I also graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration and the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw. I work in the cultural sector, previously at the Propaganda contemporary art gallery in Warsaw. I worked on the Warsaw Gallery Week project and as an assistant curator during the Datament exhibition in the Polish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. I coordinate cultural projects for, among others, the Culture Office of the City of Warsaw and Dwutygodnik magazine. I organise independent exhibition projects (most recently Very Changeable during Fringe Warsaw 2023), write curatorial texts and conduct interviews with artists. I am the initiator of the “Artist Mothers” project and one of the founders of the occasional zine publication Stopka. I acquired my knowledge of community art at the Open Institute.

In 2021 I graduated from the Illustration Studio of Grażka Lange (Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw) with a degree in Graphic Design. My MA thesis was about the first year of motherhood in the form of an illustrated book, which  alongside the theoretical work entitled ART, MATTERS AND THE ART OF MOTHERS is a record of an attempt to incorporate motherhood into the identity of the female artist. My work has been shown in the following exhibitions: Mothers of Independence (2020) and 100x40 (2019) organised as part of the International Poster Biennale, Young Art, DESA Unicum (2018, 2020 and 2023) and International Art Fair Warsaw (2017), and last year in KONTEKSTY (2023) as part of the “ARTIST AS A PROFESSIONAL” project organised by the ING Art Foundation.

I work with sound and am the author of the WOK audio logo and the soundtrack for the WOK.cast series.

I am a reporter and journalist for Radio 357.

I am a cultural researcher and activist; I participate in artistic projects in the field of engaged and political art, community art and community theatre.

I am a performing arts researcher, cultural studies scholar and independent curator.

I am a poet, editor and essayist.

I am a cross-disciplinary creative producer, consultant and co-founder of SPLOT Institute.

I am a graphic designer, book illustrator, animator, and cultural manager.

I am an economist, professor at the Cracow University of Economics.

I am a visual artist, Mother Creator, and I run the Siostry [Sisters] collective. At WOK, I coordinate the artistic and research residencies. I bring different worlds together.

I love exploring narratives and narrativizing; I'm writing a literary doctoral thesis and, in the meantime, engaging in literary criticism. At the Warsaw Observatory of Culture, I combine a passion for culture with a research-oriented approach.

Is a place to explore loose languages, the limits of language both as affect and discourse.

A multilingual street newspaper about poverty and wealth, art and society: "Arts of the Working Class" is published bi-monthly and features content by artists and thinkers from different fields and in different languages.

I am a photographer and researcher whose work focuses mainly on the themes of home, migration and care. I also try to address local political themes. I consider photography as a tool and a pretext for collaboration, supporting creative processes.

I am an interdisciplinary artist, author of situations, video works, installations and performances based on context-specific research, collaboration and participation.

My work focuses on care and community action, education and collaboration in support of solidarity, accessibility and equality.

I specialise in socio-cultural aspects of new technologies, data activism, and research methods.

I am a dancer and choreographer.

I am a performer and choreographer working in contemporary dance and visual arts.

My practice is rooted in the fields of politics, philosophy, spirituality, healthcare, media, education and literature.

I develop organisations and support teams as a facilitator, trainer and coach.

I am an art manager and curator of educational and exhibition projects. I work to integrate Belarusian artists into the Polish creative community and surf the Polish contemporary art scene. In cooperation with the WOK, I can implement projects that are important for the Belarusian cultural community.

I conduct social research concerning arts and education. I support networks of non-formal education and I try to work for something.

I am a researcher as much as a walker. At the Warsaw Observatory of Culture, I coordinate research projects and write various texts.

I am a sculptor born in 1948 in Syria, based in Warsaw.

My contribution to WOK is my experience of working in a variety of groups and contexts.

I am a theatre scholar, editor, critic and dance researcher.

I am a cultural animator, theatre educator, designer of creative situations, producer, coordinator and curator of cultural and theatrical projects, author of scenography and music, and a DJ.

I am an illustrator, poster designer and comic book author, and I created the Potato Face project.

I am a cultural animator, theatre educator, coordinator of cultural and artistic projects, manager and producer, cultural scientist, and DJ.

As part of the residency, I want to experience a pause and gather material for a chapter on how to... pause. How can we treat turning points, when we reach the wall of our own resilience, strength and hope, as possible defining moments to change the way we work and the way the whole arts and culture industry functions?

I am a performer, dancer, choreographer, counterculture animator, researcher, and playwright.

I am a director, author of artistic installations, theatre educator, and accessibility coordinator.

I am a theatre educator, performer and producer. I graduated from the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw. I am a member of the Theatre-Social Laboratory collective, where I investigate social phenomena in the form of performances, urban actions and open workshops.

I am a theatre educator, performer, coach, trainer, and chairperson of the Association of Theatre Pedagogues. I have been supporting cultural institutions, NGOs, activists and artists in their development for many years. I run workshops, conduct creative processes, and hold individual sessions. I am familiar with counteracting professional burnout, producing performances and designing and implementing social artistic projects.

I am a theatre educator, cultural animator, musician, and performer.

I am an entrepreneur and an expert in problem solving and I have headed a number of  institutions and organisations. For over 30 years of my professional career, I have worked primarily with not-for-profit organisations at various stages of development, from start-up to wind-down. I have expertise in programme development, community engagement, holistic budgeting and strategic planning.

She works with photography, video, and collage.

She studied at the Warsaw Academy of Photography for a year. The training made it clear which style is closer to her.

Alyaksandar started taking photos by accident less than a year ago, and this is a kind of conversation with his past.

I am involved in art projects addressed to ethnic minorities and migrants in Poland.

I am happy to support WOK as a consultant in its research on Warsaw dance space, bringing in my almost 20 years of experience in running choreographic development programmes and collaborating with many dance spaces and projects globally.

At the Warsaw Observatory of Culture, I support several research projects.

Disability studies, crip theory, feminism and queer studies are among my main interests.

At WOK, I support several research projects. In addition, I write texts and co-manage the institution's social media.

A dancer, performer, writer, translator and body worker. He will further reflect on essential body practices during periods of isolation and discuss the vibrant evolution of dance culture.

A choreographer, academic teacher, dance instructor, dancer, and art therapist. During the panel, her focus will be on cultivating and enhancing empathic relationships through the practice and experience of dance/conscious movement.

A performer, choreographer, dancer, educator and dance manager. During the panel, Marta will address the pressures inherent in the profession, its unpredictability, the lack of a healthy routine, excessive responsibility, as well as the concept of sustainable development within one’s personal work.

An advocate, educator, and researcher specializing in the physical and mental health of dancers. During the panel discussion, she will share her experiences in supporting dancers in their mental health, development, and career progression.

A Polish philologist, theater scholar, and dance historian. She intends to revise the attitudes and definitions that have occurred in the history of dance in the 20th and 21st centuries.

A choreographer, producer and dance teacher, she currently serves as the Director of Wrocław Opera Ballet.

A Polish choreographer, performer, and writer. During the panel, he wil share his experiences of dance practices that expose dysfunctional systems.

A theater director, coach and women’s coach. She regularly runs workshops for universities and drama schools. During the panel, Amy aims to highlight the significance of menstrual health awareness as a crucial factor influencing both individual and group well-being of artists, as well as the creative process.

Her academic work is centered around the labor market for artists, women’s participation in the labor market, the interplay between economy, culture, and art, as well as dance studies, women’s and feminist studies.

At WOK I am involved in mapping art studios and spaces suitable for choreographic practice, as well as supporting the production of events.

I would like to work in the field of culture, so the internship at WOK is a perfect opportunity for me to grow and gain practical experience.

I am a researcher, reviewer, producer and coordinator of various performing arts projects. In my daily life, I try to creatively combine theory and practice.

I am a choreographer, dancer and performer.

I support the WOK team in taking care of the office and the WOK Lab. I bring diligence, commitment and a smile to my work.

At the Warsaw Observatory of Culture, I am collaborating on a project related to cultural education. I am turning my experience of working in cultural institutions and NGOs into a research language, looking for tools to describe how the capital city's education and culture work and how they should work.

Since I was little, I have been living and observing. More recently, I have been researching and practising. I am a Warsaw-based cultural observer and I have a patent on it.

I am a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, majoring in Artistic Research and Curatorial Studies. I am interested in artistic and cultural activities on the intersection of art and sociology.

I come to WOK with research skills, culture-oriented view of the world, a desire to develop and work for the benefit of the city of Warsaw.

I am a researcher and prolific writer.

I am originally from Warsaw but I live in Amsterdam where I study Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics at the University of Amsterdam.

I am the manager of the FSH1 project, lecturer, civic journalist, and photographer.

I am not just a reportage photographer, but also a dedicated cultural and social activist.

I am a photographer, activist, and emigrant from Belarus. My love for photography is mainly focused on capturing captivating portraits.

She works with themes like the body, paths, useless actions and small gestures. Her artwork interweaves drawing in various forms and transmedial variations like sculpture, installation, video and painting.

Ukrainian artist who belongs to the artists’ circle of the Ukrainian transavant-garde art of the new wave. Her main media is painting.

In her artistic expressions, she covers a wide range of issues: from geopolitical aspects and power structures to purely intimate spheres of life, addresses the topic of violence and gender identity, the state of women in artistic and social contexts.

She is a multimedia artist, architect, actionist-performer, researcher and lecturer.

Female artist and photographer. She addresses the issues of identity, and employs the elements of activism combined with a personal story. The artist’s interests include the topics of migration and the ones connected to Eastern Europe.

Ukrainian artist and curator. Since 1999, together with the artist Yurii Kruchak, she created the art platform called Open Place where she has been working until today.

Artist and performer. In her artwork, she addresses the topics of physicality and female identity, using narratives of individual and collective memory. She develops the concepts of performative architecture and performative landscape as the relationship between identity and a city space / landscape.

Artist, performer, curator, designer, gardener.

Her creative work is dedicated to social issues. Main techniques include painting and video.

The cornerstone of artist's practice is storytelling. Fascinated by speculative fiction, cosmism, and futurism, she has been trying to find alternative models for existence and coexistence.

A multidisciplinary concept artist who works with performance, photography, video, and text.

Architect, artist, director, curator, researcher. A pioneer of Ukrainian media art since the 1990s.

W swojej twórczości wykorzystuje tkaniny, zajmuje się sztuką audiowizualną i land artem.

Within the framework of this programme, my focus lies in conducting research on the collaborative experiences between cultural institutions in Warsaw and creative collectives/artists from Belarus. Let’s make changes by theatre.

Mental health, identity, and corporeality are key aspects I explore in my work, aligned with the interests of transhumanists.

My work focuses mainly on graphics, video, virtual reality experiences and audio-visual narratives. Through my experimentation with three-dimensional spaces, I delve into topics concerning the role of humanity within the digital realm.

I use art to the intriguing juncture where the synthetic and the natural converge. My work, often created using algorithms and new media, shows the relationship between humanity and technology.

My inspiration comes from nature and the power of memory, while my practice is driven by sensitivity to materials and a desire to extract the emotional potential residing in everyday forms and objects.

My artistic expression spans various media, such as video, sound, and performance, as I strive to construct interactive situations and virtual realities.

I am an economist by education and a smiling IT specialist by profession. I support WOK in the field of IT and automation.

In the Warsaw Observatory of Culture, I am responsible for widely understood legal matters, including the formal and legal accuracy of contracts and agreements and internal instruments, as well as for providing ongoing legal support and advice.

In his practice he uses videos, installations, performances and drawings. Lives and works in Kyiv.

Website development.

At WOK, I am responsible for what seems to be the favourite topic of all staff members, namely public procurement and accuracy expense reporting.

At WOK, I oversee the archiving of documentation.

I am the designer of the WOK website and was invited to collaborate on the project with Alicja Kobza, the designer of the Observatory’s visual identity whom I have known ever since our studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. I think we still like each other.

I am a theatre pedagogue, a trainer and culture manager. My core interests evolve around contemporary theatre for children, young adults, and families.

Aculture manager, lecturer at the University of Warsaw, the Jagiellonian University and the Theatre Academy, the president of the Miasto Literatury Foundation, and Programme Director of the Leadership Academy for Poland.

Director of the Centrum Cyfrowe, researcher and curator of cultural projects, co-author of the Museum Laboratory project.

A long-time Director of the M HKA, or the Contemporary Art Museum in Antwerp, chairman of the Museum Watch programme and co-author of the "Governance Management Project".

I am a graduate of human resources management, and at WOK, I manage human resources and payroll.

I design visuals for the Warsaw Observatory of Culture. I am the designer behind the winning visual identity of WOK. I am responsible for WOK printed and digital materials' appearance, consistency, and user experience. Part of my role involves minimising paper and energy waste.

I have been a permanent fixture at the Scena Prezentacje Theatre since 1981. At the Warsaw Observatory of Culture, I am a specialist for technical issues.

I am a curator and cultural manager, currently associated with the Warsaw Observatory of Culture. I am interested in international interdisciplinary projects and in processes where art and culture form an essential part of the dynamically changing societies of the future.

I develop communication strategies, branding, and PR of culture. I am good at crisis management and leading change. I write, edit, Speak in front of an audience, manage projects, coordinate promotional campaigns, share knowledge and my experience. I connect the dots in processes at the intersection of art, education, promotion and sustainability.

I used to be a tax advisor, but today I find myself primarily focused on observing and engaging with culture.

At the Warsaw Observatory of Culture, I am responsible for office coordination and accessibility. I feel most confident in administration and management, and particularly enjoy processing data in my beloved Excel tables.

I joined the team in December 2022 as Deputy Director. I currently work as a Acting Director at WOK. Throughout my career, I worked on projects blending education, culture and applied sociology for several institutions, including NGOs, universities and museums and galleries.

I bring the experience gained in diverse places across Europe to WOK.

I work as a Project Manager at the Warsaw Observatory of Culture. My experience lies in designing and coordinating highly dynamic and changeable processes, working with diverse organisational cultures, and building interdisciplinary project teams.